Mark Wolfe
Reading Rainbow, Terminator and 100+ more movies. CEO, Movie Producer, Co-Founder. Studio Exec, President of Multiple non-profit BODs. Philanthropy, education and entertainment. Retired but somehow not ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
- Role
- Member of the Board of Advisors at Benetech
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mark Wolfe
I have been all over the world creating and guiding projects that entertained, educated, and made millions of people laugh or cry…Occasionally the way we intended 🤮 I’m a CEO Movie & TV producer Non-profit Board member Reading Rainbow co-founder senior studio exec writer and director Chief Creative Officer start-up entrepreneur and lover of storytelling. In 2010, my business partner, LeVar Burton, and I formed a children\'s media start up, RRKIDZ. We raised money & acquired rights to Reading Rainbow. We built a company I ran as CEO, & grew to 20+ employees. In 2012 we debuted Reading Rainbow to bring books and world exploring videos to the digital generation. In 2014 I captained the most-backed Kickstarter campaign ever, raising $6.4M for our cause to bring Reading Rainbow to”Every Child, Everywhere”. 🧒 Joe and Jill Biden and Michele Obama all invited me to write and direct them in multiple projects. The whole White House experience was beyond surreal. I turned over the reigns of the company to others, retired and got my master\'s degree, a bucket list item. I joined several Non-profit boards specifically in the disability and education (literacy) spaces. One Board I am currently president of oversees the coordination of the vast $14B annual State of California Dept of Developmental Disabilities Services, where we serve 1% of Cali’s residents with Autism, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury’s and more. Before all those adventures, I managed $1B of movie projects in my career as a Movie Producer or Studio Executive on over 100 films including: The Way Back (Peter Weir) Terminator 3 and 4 K-19: The Widowmaker (Harrison Ford/Liam Neeson) Kinsey (Liam Neeson) I Heart Huckabees Fargo Four Weddings and a Funeral Taken In Broad Daylight (One of Lifetime’s most watched films) Elizabeth The Big Lebowski Reach For Me (A serious look at how the end of life can be celebrated) Dead Man Walking What Dreams May Come Mr Bean The Usual Suspects (I knew who Kaiser Sosse was before you!) Barb Wire (sorry) I am married to my high school prom date & have two great kids. I live in and love being in LA.
Experience
Member of the Board of Advisors
Aug 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Global, equitable literacy for everyone through technology. Cause if you don\'t read at grade level by the 4th grade, you stand a 50% chance of not graduating High School. Think about it.
Education
Needham High School
Made videos. Met my wife , A/V Nerd
Arizona State University
Master's degree, Advanced studies; film and media
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science - BS, Communications/Film and Television Production
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